Oleh: Kevin Carson. Teks aslinya berjudul “Will Free Markets Recreate Corporate Capitalism?” Diterjemahkan oleh Ameyuri Ringo. Banyak anarkis dan sosialis berpendapat bahwa bahkan jika pasar secara teoritis dapat bersifat non-kapitalis, dan ekonomi pasar non-kapitalis dapat diciptakan, dinamika dari pasar akan menghasilkan kelahiran kembali kapitalisme. Argumentasi yang digunakan oleh kaum anarkis dan sosialis non-pasar adalah bahwa,…

The Norfolk Southern disaster in East Palestine has raised numerous issues of corporate malfeasance, and how it is enabled by corporate collusion with the state. Some of that, as we saw in December, is the federal government’s protection of the railroad industry from labor action against its intolerable work hours and lack of sick leave,…

Throughout American history centralized, federally subsidized infrastructure projects have been a recurring theme for plutocratic interests. Under the Whigs (“internal improvements”) and the Gilded Age GOP (railroad land grants) it was promoted by parties that unabashedly identified themselves as advocates for national commercial interests. But with the rise of the Progressive movement at the turn…

C4SS Feed 44 presents Kevin Carson‘s “Will Free Markets Recreate Corporate Capitalism?” read and edited by Tony Dreher. And when I say “free markets,” I am not referring to a society in which the majority of economic functions are organized through money exchange (the “cash nexus”) or business firms. By “free market” I mean only…

Some anarchists and socialists argue that, even if markets can theoretically be non-capitalist, and non-capitalist market economies can exist, the dynamics of the market will eventually lead to the restoration of capitalism. The argument used by non-market anarchists and socialists is that, in a competitive market — even a competitive market of widespread distribution of…